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Ministry of Agriculture Republic of Indonesia

listed as Ministry of Agriculture Rebublic Indonesia · Claimed by Vicesociety · listed 4 years ago

49m
Age
since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

  1. ListedJun 27, 2022
  2. Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group
Vicesociety
Status
Data leaked
Country
Indonesia
Sector
Government
Listed on leak site
Jun 27, 2022

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Indonesia is the central government body responsible for formulating and implementing agricultural policy across the country. It oversees agriculture, plantations, livestock, fisheries, and forestry sectors in one of Southeast Asia's largest agrarian economies. The ministry operates nationally from its headquarters in South Jakarta.

Industry
Government – Agricultural Ministry
Address
Jl. Harsono RM No.3, Ragunan, Jakarta Selatan, DKI Jakarta 12550, Indonesia

Attack summary

Severity: high — The victim is a national government ministry; the disclosure status is 'data_published', indicating confirmed exfiltration and public release of government data, which may include sensitive policy, personnel, and operational records affecting a sovereign institution.

Vice Society claims to have exfiltrated data from the Ministry of Agriculture of Indonesia and has published the data. The leak post references Indonesia's agricultural identity, suggesting the stolen data relates to the ministry's operations and records.

high

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post
  • Government administrative records
  • Agricultural policy documents
  • Internal ministry files
  • Potentially personally identifiable information of staff or stakeholders

What the group claims

Indonesia's rich natural resources are influenced by its tropical climate and geographical location between two continents, Asia and Australia, and two oceans, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. Therefore, Indonesia is known as an agrarian country with a variety of products from agriculture, plantations, livestock, fisheries and forestry.

Source

Indexed 4 years ago

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Disclosure context

About Vicesociety

Vicesociety is a ransomware group that emerged in May 2021, primarily motivated by financial gain through targeting critical infrastructure and public service organizations. The group's origin and specific affiliations remain largely undetermined by public threat intelligence reporting, though their operational patterns suggest they function as an independent ransomware operation rather than a established RaaS model. Vicesociety primarily gains initial access through exploitation of public-facing applications and credential-based attacks, with documented cases showing they particularly focus on compromising remote access services and vulnerable web applications before deploying their ransomware payload across victim networks. The group has demonstrated a clear preference for targeting educational institutions, government agencies, and healthcare organizations, with their 188 documented victims concentrated heavily in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Spain, indicating a focus on English-speaking and Western European entities. While specific high-profile campaigns have not been extensively detailed in major public threat intelligence reports from CISA or FBI advisories, the group's consistent targeting of critical sectors like education and healthcare has drawn attention from security researchers monitoring threats to essential services. Vicesociety remains active as of recent threat intelligence assessments, continuing their operations against similar target sectors with no documented law enforcement disruption or significant operational changes. The group has been linked to 188 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on May 31, 2021; most recent post June 20, 2023. The operation is currently inactive.

Also tracked as: VICE SOCIETY.

Timeline of this disclosure

  • June 27, 2022Ministry of Agriculture Rebublic Indonesia listed by Vicesocietyon the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by Vicesociety

Vicesociety has been linked to 188 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

See the full Vicesociety dossier →

Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Government sector, which has 685 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Ministry of Agriculture Rebublic Indonesia is reported in Indonesia, a country with 77 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by Vicesociety means Ministry of Agriculture Rebublic Indonesia appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

  • Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
  • Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
  • Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
  • Monitor for the data appearing on Vicesociety's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.